Investigation 92 from the National Hurricane Center is now moving westward across the Florida Peninsula. The graphic below shows the nice flow around the center of the disturbance. You can see the original with moving wind in real time by clicking here. Note that this will show a current view…
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If you are interested in the presentations from the Southeast Regional Extension Climate Academy, they have just been uploaded to the PINEMAP YouTube video channel. You can access them at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHu4PGejzrIyU2A7Mm2RIWhybDik1jnW3. The audio is of variable quality since they were just recorded from ambient sound. Thank you to Dr. Eric…
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The National Hurricane Center has started issuing advisories on the old Investigation 91 in the far eastern Atlantic Ocean, now identified as a tropical depression with a closed center. This system is not expected to make landfall. Investigation 92 is still east of Florida and moving west, but so far…
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Previous blog postings have provided links to quantitative precipitation forecast (QPF) maps from the Climate Prediction Center. Here is another source that is geared towards the Southeast from the NWS Southeast River Forecast Center (http://www.srh.noaa.gov/serfc/?n=qpfpage). Note that the SERFC maps only cover the next 48 hours in 6-hour increments so…
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The latest newsletter from UGA’s Stripling Irrigation Park (available at http://striplingpark.org/wp-content/uploads/2014-Sept-Newsletter.pdf has some great comments on how the wet spring and dry summer have affected cotton and peanuts around the area, particularly in southwest Georgia. Wes Porter, the UGA irrigation specialist, has some good comments about irrigation needs for cotton…
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Currently there are two active areas of investigation out in the Atlantic Ocean. Investigation 91 is far out in the eastern Atlantic Ocean and the predicted movement of this system will keep it well away from the Southeast. Investigation 92 is east of the Florida coast and is expected to…
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The evaporative stress index is a way of measuring rates of evapotranspiration from plants and the ground using satellite data. The higher the rates of water use, the more negative the evaporative stress index. The two maps below show the maps for September 2 and September 8. You can…
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